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FS: Aeolian 116-note Player Organ Rolls
By Jay Merrill

I have a lot of Aeolian 116-note organ rolls that I've decided to
sell.  All have the army green cloth-covered boxes with orange labels
on the boxes; some rolls have the same label on the roll, some rolls
have an oilcloth type leader in cream and green.

All rolls start with 51xxx and some have a number rubber-stamped on
the underside of the leader by the tab, but is slightly different than
the roll number.  I also found a date of 1911 on the underside of the
leader of one roll; are they that early?  I did see patent dates of
between 1896-1913.  So far, what I've gone through look like they've
never been played.  I just found a couple today with a little edge
curling and a small fold over.  They originally came from an estate
of a rebuilder in the middle of nowhere in Iowa,

Jay Merrill - in finally not-roasting Indiana!


(Message sent Fri 27 Aug 2010, 23:32:17 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

Key Words in Subject:  116-note, Aeolian, FS, Organ, Player, Rolls

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